Books you couldn’t put down once you started?

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Anything John Grisham... Cheap entertainment, but he knows how to write a thriller.

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The Firm, hands down!

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The Bible. Couldn’t put it down. Maybe it’s because I went to a catholic high school that tested us on it.

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Dalio's Principles

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The silent patient

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Great book!

The Red Rising series by Pierce Brown. Amazingly written; I couldn't put it down until I finished it

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It was great at the beginning, but felt a little sloppy toward the end. Worthwhile reading though and agree it was a series I couldn’t put down.

Atlas Shrugged 🤷‍♂️

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Harry Potter

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Verity by Colleen Hoover, good thriller

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Second this

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

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Into Thin Air

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Read In To Thin Air, interesting book but the author Jon Krauker is a selfish man. He bashes and critics so many people on the expedition. He criticized Anatoli the guide and yet he braved the treacherous storm to save 3 people while Krauker saved no one and sat in his tent while his teammates died. Wanted to love this book but couldn’t because of how selfish the author comes off.

The Alchemist.

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The Communist Manifesto

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“The communist manifest: But Tony hawk can keep his stuff” is also a great read

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

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SO GOOD!

My Brilliant Friend Series (Ferrante), The Dispossessed (Le Guin), Dawn (Butler), Exhalation (Chiang), What If We’re Wrong (Kloosterman), The Deficit Myth (Kelton), In The Dream House (Machado), Dune (Herbert), Three Body Problem (Liu), Why Buddhism is True (Wright), when breathe becomes air (kalanithi), The Bhagavad Gita

Off the top of my head…

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Dune is great, especially all the prequels!

Enders Game

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Zen and the Art of motorcycle maintenance. It's been more than a couple of years. Apart from the philosophy, the book also had a huge impact on me otherwise. It made me fall in love once again with motorcyles. I started listening to country music a hell lot more. When I go to sleep, I often listen to John Denver and imagine myself motorcycling cross country, and I pretty much want to settle in Montana.

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That is a wonderful book. I loved reading it; need to reread just to feel that way again.

Sapiens!

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Unbroken

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Bright Lights Big City; Snow Blind; This Side of Paradise; the entire Maturin-Aubrey series

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Bright lights big city is soooo good!!!

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11.22.63

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Creativity, Inc.
The Everything Store
Elon Musk bio

Gosh, this thread is making me want to reignite my reading hobby!

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Thank goodness for eBooks

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Girl woman other

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